Advokit Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 Well I got Kalyway Leopard 10.5.2 installed and everything works great. However in the last few days the Hardrive has vanished from both the desktop and from finder, I have checked the settings and "show hard drives" is ticked in General and Finder preferences. Have been searching like crazy to find anyone that has come across this before, I would really like to be able to fix without a re-install if at all possible. I have already tried creating a new user and it makes no difference, please help as I have only just made the transistion to OSX and am still a little green on fixing issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advokit Posted May 25, 2008 Author Share Posted May 25, 2008 Right in case anyone ever runs into this problem, I tried nearly everything even calling the local Apple dealer to try and sort this without a re-install. Turns out this issue must have been caused by plugging in my external 120Gb hard drive as I went to a mates house and plugged in my HDD to his G5 running tiger and guess what. His Main drive vanished as well! So, after much searching he managed to come across a fix for this issue. Launch ScriptEditor and copy and paste this into the script window: tell application "System Events" set visible of disk "NameofDisk" to true end tell tell application "Finder" to quit delay 1 tell application "Finder" to launch Replace NameofDisk with the actual name of your disk, hit the Compile icon to make sure the script didn't acquire any errors, and then hit run. This should set the visible attribute back to visible and quit and relaunch the Finder, thus making the change available. The same thing can happen to other drives, both internal and external. You can use the same Applescript to fix those as well, just put in the name of the drive. Now my drive is now visible again without a full re-install, this works for Tiger and Leopard too! Hope this helps someone who runs into the same problem in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmoarena Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Hey thanks a lot you just saved my another re-installation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefan1968 Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 THANK YOU! You just helped me out with the exact same problem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advokit Posted April 22, 2009 Author Share Posted April 22, 2009 THANK YOU! You just helped me out with the exact same problem! Always glad to be of help. This has re-occured a couple of times now so I have the script tucked away in an easy to find location so I can run it to fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taunt Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Is the there something different in snow leopard? I get a a sytax error when I try this in script editor: tell application "System Events" set visible of disk "NameofDisk" to true end tell tell application "Finder" to quit delay 1 tell application "Finder" to launch What am I doing wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandiztxu Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 I'm having problems with this, I know this is a old theat but after hidding my "Time MAchine" Driver can't open Finder -> Preferences It keeps crashing, any suggestions to fix this Thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrancio Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Right in case anyone ever runs into this problem, I tried nearly everything even calling the local Apple dealer to try and sort this without a re-install. Turns out this issue must have been caused by plugging in my external 120Gb hard drive as I went to a mates house and plugged in my HDD to his G5 running tiger and guess what. His Main drive vanished as well! So, after much searching he managed to come across a fix for this issue. Launch ScriptEditor and copy and paste this into the script window: tell application "System Events" set visible of disk "NameofDisk" to true end tell tell application "Finder" to quit delay 1 tell application "Finder" to launch Replace NameofDisk with the actual name of your disk, hit the Compile icon to make sure the script didn't acquire any errors, and then hit run. This should set the visible attribute back to visible and quit and relaunch the Finder, thus making the change available. The same thing can happen to other drives, both internal and external. You can use the same Applescript to fix those as well, just put in the name of the drive. Now my drive is now visible again without a full re-install, this works for Tiger and Leopard too! Hope this helps someone who runs into the same problem in the future. Hello, why don't you just go to Finder's Preferences and Click on the 'Show Hard Drives' box? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 Hello, why don't you just go to Finder's Preferences and Click on the 'Show Hard Drives' box? Hello, why don't you read before posting? He already did that...two years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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